Some "ideas" are, if they qualify as trade secrets (think Coke's formula). Other's are free to reverse engineer those ideas, but a former employer/vendor/custo

Some "ideas" are, if they qualify as trade secrets (think Coke's formula). Other's are free to reverse engineer those ideas, but a former employer/vendor/customer exposed to those ideas under an NDA can come after you for misappropriating their qualifying ideas.